Almaviva

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by Almaviva 14y ago
Sampling lowers your confidence resolution, period. When you're testing hypotheses the biggest constraint can be that the effect you're looking for is too small to be within the resolution that your confidence intervals give you. Improving
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by Almaviva 14y ago
.. and I still have to roll my own library or inline code for parsing apart GET params. No thanks.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
I have a hard time seeing why, these days, an extra 1.2k for something that makes a task simpler and more consistent is ever "overkill".
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by Almaviva 14y ago
I agree with everything you said, but if you watch the actual video, the performance is clearly not tied to the particular song:)
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by Almaviva 14y ago
If it's a droll reference to that thread last week about how there are no useful rational approximations, then "whoosh" and well played, sir:)
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by Almaviva 14y ago
> var PI = 355 / 113; You know about Math.PI?
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by Almaviva 14y ago
As someone who would take such a preservationist position, I think this is my best argument: It is morally inconsistent to think that super-intelligent life should leave us intact if we were found, and at the same time be willing to interfe
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by Almaviva 14y ago
> For example, what is multiplication by i+1? Without further understanding, I don't think such a question can be answered. i+1 on the plane is a vector at 45 degrees and a scaling of sqrt(2). So multiplying by it scales your multiplier
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by Almaviva 14y ago
See also: Doctor Who (1963) (#2272)
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by Almaviva 14y ago
The sex issue is just frivolous. E.g. I haven't had anything but rejection from a woman in three years, I'm perfectly healthy and functional, and I'm not being carefully chosen for one of the most groundbreaking missions for the human race.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
I agree. Imagine that time is used (instead of current balance), and A pays out if the current second is divisible by three, and B pays out if it is one more than a multiple of three. A and B are both losing games if played every second, bu
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by Almaviva 14y ago
Then again, how many times have you found a bug caused by a single line or function call or bit of syntax that didn't do exactly what you thought, that was easily overlooked? Particularly in someone else's code in a language that isn't your
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by Almaviva 14y ago
In another light, society, using pricing as a communication signal, has determined that its value is worth 100 million USD more than its cost. I'm not sure whether that's less or more depressing. > The film has earned $64,372,300 in Nor
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by Almaviva 14y ago
> Because favoring the trains would mean fewer cars on the road, something the city needs. Yes, so that I can drive faster.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
I think it's quite dramatic how many very intelligent people (up to writers in major publications) are uneducated about this distinction, and how dramatically wrong decisions can be if this is misunderstood. If we could teach this, as well
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by Almaviva 14y ago
A couple of extreme examples: 1. I'm rolling two dice to try and get the highest total. I get two sixes. What is the chance randomness produces this? 1/36, about 0.027. This more than a two sigma result. What is the chance that this is caus
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by Almaviva 14y ago
> which would mean a 1 in 1.74 million chance that the results occurred by chance rather than being a signal No!! It's the chance that randomness could produce a result that large. This distinction sounds pedantic, but misunderstanding
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by Almaviva 14y ago
> unhealthy manner Evidence required.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
This would be reasonable if people who ought to know better didn't commit this kind of elementary error constantly, particularly in nutrition. It is your attitude, that it's reasonable to publish a scientific article in a major publication
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by Almaviva 14y ago
"An extra 10 calories a day puts more weight onto an obese person than on a thinner one." It needs to be explained how he determined that this isn't related to _why_ they are obese in the first place, i.e. whether these are purely correlati
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by Almaviva 14y ago
Ironically I think Popsicles actually reduce their own index! Empty calories and concentrated sugar being given to children probably harms their health in the long run.
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by Almaviva 14y ago
Why shouldn't we talk about net profit? Taking 30% off the top can quite easily mean the difference between viability and not, quite easily, when you factor in employees, rent, marketing, legal fees, and absolutely everything else. Isn't th
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by Almaviva 15y ago
Oh man, change it to "sqrt(x * x + y * y * y)", and it looks like either boobs or ass, I'm not sure which!
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by Almaviva 15y ago
I would add that you need to be realistic about what is possible. Realize you can easily fluctuate your weight plus or minus ten pounds. A pound of water isn't very much, and your body's glycogen stores plus water can amount to 5-10 pounds.
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by Almaviva 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the basic facts are: 1. There is damning evidence (probably beyond reasonable doubt) that Rybka contains some copy-pasted code from Fruit (the open source program). 2. The interesting thing about Rybka was that it was
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by Almaviva 15y ago
Suppose there is a unique 15-clue solution. Then add another clue by adding any number from the unique solution. The solution must still be unique (because it contains the 15 clues), so we now have a unique 16-clue solution, which is imposs
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by Almaviva 15y ago
Maybe we should design an exercise bike with motor, and you just put your feet in the pedals and let them roll around without applying any force yourself? Seriously, a fast cadence on a bike isn't even work if you're not applying any force
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by Almaviva 15y ago
How are you forced to produce power output on a tandem bicycle? You can force the cadence but what happens if you just relax and let your legs go around with the pedals? I would think you would be producing zero power on your own, not exact
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by Almaviva 15y ago
I was in your situation, but at age 30. I took a couple of years off with plenty of savings and had no idea how unhireable I would be afterwards. (I got my degree in math in the days when no specific education in CS was required at all to e
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by Almaviva 15y ago
It's going to apply to anything that has a probability distribution that is monotonically decreasing at any rate, exponential or not. This is pretty obvious: the probability of the number 1 will be greater than the number 2, and so on up to

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